A rough outline of parallel myths treated in Burkert ch. 5.

	Dumuzi/Tammuz	Attis	Adonis	Hippolytus
Great Mother and her young guy	Inanna returns from the Dead with gang of gallu to demand Dumuzi go in her place, for his betrayal.	Cybele/Kubaba (cult at Pessinus*): bi-gendered Cybele castrates herself (becoming solely female, Agdistis); Attis spawned from the male part; Agdistis is obsessed with him	Panyasis’ version of the Adonis story: Aphrodite loves Adonis as a beautiful child; she lays him in a casket and lodges him with Persephone, among the dead.	Burkert’s theory links Hippolytus with archetypal hunter in service of the Mistress of Beasts (~Artemis) [horse sacrifice to win bounty of the sea?]
rejection and replacement	Geshtinanna replaces Dumuzi for half the year; thus he returns half the year (to Inanna)  shared by the living and the dead	Attis plans to marry a princess, but Agdistis crashes the party. Attis castrates himself (and dies) to escape. Eunuch priests called galloi serve ‘the Great Mother’	Persephone refuses to give him up, agrees to release him 2/3 of the year. Conventional version: Adonis favors Artemis, dies on the hunt.	Hippolytus loved by Phaedra, rejects her for Artemis. Phaedra designs his death.

* Late report by Arnobius makes Agdistis the spawn of Zeus from rock, when he is rejected by Cybele; Ag. is castrated by Dionysus.